Partners and donors from around the world gathered in San Francisco the first week in October to learn and share ideas and best practices for the TechSoup Global program.

San Francisco, CA – October 4, 2007 – San Francisco-based nonprofit TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) announced today that it will add two new donor partners to its global technology product donation program, which is aimed at building the capacity of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. The TechSoup Global program is currently active in eight countries: UK, Ireland, Belgium, Spain, Poland, South Africa, Australia, and India, and plans to be active in 24 countries by July, 2008.

Long-term North American TechSoup donor partner Mailshell (www.mailshell.com), the world's leading provider of anti-spam, anti-phishing, and email reputation engines, will expand its donation program overseas by donating its desktop anti-spam and anti-phishing software.

Bytes of Learning (www.bytesoflearning.com) develops and publishes multimedia software tools and supporting materials for education. The company, who is one of the latest partners in the North American donation program, will be donating its UltraKey 5.0 typing instruction software.

In May 2007, over 300 participants gathered to accelerate the 21 Projects that have been selected by the NetSquared community as having the greatest potential to leverage the social web to create social change. Conference participants were asked to vote based on the following criteria:

• What projects are the most likely to take off and succeed?
• What projects will achieve the greatest impact?
• What projects will be best leveraged by the social change community?

So who won?

The real story is that all 21 projects were winners. But you knew that - and you still want to know received the most votes. So without further ado:

Honor coincides with plans to expand technology product donation program to six continents

San Francisco, CA—September 27, 2006—TechSoup (www.techsoup.org), a project of CompuMentor (www.compumentor.org), announced today that Daniel Ben-Horin, the organization’s President, was once again included in the prestigious NonProfit Times Top 50 Power and Influence List for 2006 (www.nptimes.com). Mr. Ben-Horin has now been named one of the "leaders that are shaping the nonprofit world" for the third consecutive year.

The honor is particularly timely because TechSoup and its parent organization CompuMentor are at an exciting juncture. During the past year, they broke new ground with several programs: